Chamber Works

Mahler: Auferstehung

The new Geniun CD, featuring a chamber music version of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, offers the listener a new and unusual perspective on this work of the century! Annika Steinbach (soprano) and Henriette Gödde (alto), as well as Emanuel Mütze (trumpet), contribute to this extraordinary, topnotch listening experience. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 23818 $18.99

Habbestad, Hindemith, Iberg & Lung: Trio Brax

Trio Brax is a chamber music ensemble based in Tromsø, Northern Norway, founded in 2015. In this first recording they showcase music by the three Norwegian composers; Kjell Habbestad, Håvard Lund, and Helge Iberg, as well as music by Paul Hindemith. The ensemble features an unusual combination of viola, tenor saxophone, and piano. (Lawo)

1CD# LWC1248 $16.99

Le Dolce Sirene / Bach Aria Soloists [2 CDs]

Reference Recordings is proud to present a very special new release! Entitled Le Dolce Sirene to represent the all-women force of Bach Aria Soloists, this exciting new album includes works by Monteverdi, Handel, Mendelssohn and Bach, alongside a new transcription by BAS of Cecilia McDowall’s song cycle Four Shakespeare Songs. (Reference)

2CD# FR-750 $16.99

Homage to Beethoven / Dresden Septet

A young ensemble backed with over 400 years of history is releasing its debut CD with Genuin – the Dresden Chamber Soloists. On this CD, the ensemble combines Beethoven’s famous Septet with a new work written for the same instrumentation, Simone Fontanelli’s gestural Dresden Septet – Hommage to Beethoven. A worthwhile world premiere recording! (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 23805 $18.99

Chamber Works In Brief

Haydn, Pawollek & Smetana Trio E.T.A.

Over the past decades, the German Music Competition has repeatedly given a stage to great chamber music formations! In this recording, we become acquainted with the promising Trio E.T.A., featuring Elene Meipariani (violin), Till Schuler (cello), and Till Hoffmann (piano), performing works by Joseph Haydn, Roman Pawollek, and Bedrich Smetana. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 23816 $18.99

Berg, Wally & Zemlinsky: Viennese

Transfigurations

Three Vienna-born composers and four elective Viennese performers come together in four challenging and deeply layered compositions that span 120 years of Viennese musical history. Two arrangements are by the composers themselves, and two are by violinist Maxim Brilinsky. (Hanssler Classic)

1CD# HC22046 $18.99

Kahn: Chamber Music

“The decision to record works by my great-grandfather was actually made some time ago. Back in 2006 I founded the Hohenstaufen chamber music festival, where we play chamber music from absolutely all eras, in a wide variety of scorings. This is how we came to engage with the chamber music of Robert Kahn, who was a Professor at the Musikhochschule in Berlin for chamber music and piano.” – violinist Rahel Rilling (Hanssler Classic)

1CD# HC22075 $18.99

Hodkinson: Chamber Works

Throughout his lifetime, composer Sydney Hodkinson wrote over 250 works, covering a wide array of genres including educational literature, chamber arrangements, and large-scale orchestral pieces. This release brings four live recordings of the late composer’s string quartets and a trio, Rogatio Gravis, to life with performances from the Benda Quartet and the Jupiter Quartet. (Navona)

1CD# NV6498 $14.99

Dekker, Grieg, Hoekstra & Ravel: Spectrum / Colori Ensemble

With Spectrum, the Colori Ensemble presents its third album for Aliud Records in close collaboration with the Frisian Music Archive. (Aliud)

1CD# ACDOE1272 $16.99

J.S. Bach, Handel & Telemann: German Delight

The new release German Delight by the Apollo Ensemble contains six examples of what C.P.E. Bach called ‘music for Kenner und Liebhaber’ (professionals and amatuers). (Querstand)

1CD# VKJK 2107 $18.99

Koppel: Chamber Music

Danish composer and musician Anders Koppel’s imagination and fecundity of ideas give his music a character of joie de vivre, curiosity and playfulness. (Danacord)

1SACD# DACOCD946 $16.99

Raff: Chamber Music, Vol. 3

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of the Joachim Raff, the Leipzig String Quartet presents his string octet, which follows this principle in an exemplary manner. (MDG-Gold)

1CD# 3072273 $19.99